Pismirism

//ˈpɪs.maɪ(ə)ˌɹɪ.zəm// noun

noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Hoarding of money; frugality. rare, uncountable

    "At the time of our story it was just possible to meet here and there in lane and country road the Englishman, not as a futile human budget of axioms and inane little facts, but as something blent of demigod and viking. Also one might view the most beautiful country on earth as God intended it to be, not as a century of pismirism has made it."

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"At the time of our story it was just possible to meet here and there in lane and country road the Englishman, not as a futile human budget of axioms and inane little facts, but as something blent of demigod and viking. Also one might view the most beautiful country on earth as God intended it to be, not as a century of pismirism has made it."

Etymology

From pismire + -ism.

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